I was expecting some hidden message from his website headers too, but there was none :(
Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
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Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
#62Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized? It pretty much destroys any value that noticing the header might have as a signal. Granted the signal strength was probably pretty low already, as other commenters have pointed out, but blog posts like this must decrease it even further.
No, because all these headers just lead to the stock standard hiring page. It literally has no effect.
I first noticed these kinds of "hidden" hiring messages almost 10 years ago. I thought it was cool for like 20 seconds until I realised that it is no different than just applying normally on their normal hiring page.
So the fact that more people find out about this, is like people discovering that a hiring page exists on companies websites. Which they already knew.
What I'm actually annoyed by is that companies are still doing this stupid thing.
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#63Another good one is when teams print console messages in the browser. Poke around on a few systems and youll see hiring messages there too.
Even some electron apps have this. Discord is one I can think of off the top of my head.
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#64I once made a Chrome extension called HeaderHunter to automatically notify users when a recruitment header is detected. It still works:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/headerhunter/almeo...
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#65Can someone share what header the author added to their site? I only have my iPhone for the next 6 days. Anyone know of a way to see headers on an iPhone out of curiosity?
x-hack: Like HTTP headers? Check this blog post https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/
Um, that’s the article this whole thread is about. And it doesn’t answer the question you’re replying to at all.
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#66Can someone share what header the author added to their site? I only have my iPhone for the next 6 days. Anyone know of a way to see headers on an iPhone out of curiosity?
Install iSH. Then curl -D- https://example.com/ https://ish.app/
For headers alone, use a HEAD request with `curl --head`, short form `curl -I`. `curl -D-` emits the body as well, which is just noise if you’re only interested in the headers.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Install iSH. Then curl -D- https://example.com/ https://ish.app/
For headers alone, use a HEAD request with `curl --head`, short form `curl -I`. `curl -D-` emits the body as well, which is just noise if you’re only interested in the headers.
A HEAD request doesn’t necessarily return the same headers as the corresponding GET request. Just use -o/dev/null to suppress the body (which I omitted for brevity).
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round. The jar is round. They should call it Roundtine.
I know you're joking, but I looked it up :) 'Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for "egg", and malt, which were originally its key ingredients).' [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovaltine
Oh! That explains why I’d always get really sick after drinking/eating Ovaltine based products!
Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
#70I had a similar idea for financing Open Source software projects. The contributing sponsors would get their URL and add-text into a comment at the top of the source-code. The bigger your sponsorship the higher up in the list your company will be. The adds would of course be targeted at hackers, such as come work for us, since only hackers read source-code. So it would be a very targeted ad (like the http-header thing…
It has been tried And The Results Will Surprise You: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923